Help with Oracle SQL to strip unwanted characters

Hello,
I have 2 columns (Weight and Height) where I need to strip the alpha characters and convert them to numbers (I am required to derive additional columns where I need to present
these values in inches, cm, KG, LB, etc. (and thus the need to convert them to numbers). I am too much a novice to understand the best way to convert these columns into numbers (same precision as you see here).
See the image below for a sample of what these columns currently contain. I simply need help with the Oracle SQL code to parse/convert these vales into number. Thanks in advance for your assistance!
Dave

Hi,
In addition to
Erland Sommarskog's comment which is of course correct and this i not the forum to ask question about Oracle, I dont want to leave you without a lead :-)
The solution both in SQL Server and Oracle should based on Regular Expressions. I highly recommended NOT to use T-SQL solutions in this case, as mentioned above, unless this is a very small table and the need is very simple and include finding one point
in the string as in
SaravanaC solution (when he assume thge string format is based on 2 parts (1) Number + (2) unit type).
In Oracle there is a build in Regular Expressions option as mentioned here: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B12037_01/appdev.101/b10795/adfns_re.htm
In SQL Server the PATINDEX is used for simple cases and there is no built in Regular Expressions, but you can add it using CLR as shown in this link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163473.aspx
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     at oracle.jdbc.oracore.OracleTypeUPT.unpickle81rec(OracleTypeUPT.java:416)
     at oracle.jdbc.oracore.OracleTypeCOLLECTION.unpickle81_imgBody_elems(OracleTypeCOLLECTION.java:979)
     at oracle.jdbc.oracore.OracleTypeCOLLECTION.unpickle81_imgBody(OracleTypeCOLLECTION.java:923)
     at oracle.jdbc.oracore.OracleTypeCOLLECTION.unpickle81(OracleTypeCOLLECTION.java:743)
     at oracle.jdbc.oracore.OracleTypeCOLLECTION._unlinearize(OracleTypeCOLLECTION.java:242)
     at oracle.jdbc.oracore.OracleTypeCOLLECTION.unlinearize(OracleTypeCOLLECTION.java:208)
     at oracle.sql.ArrayDescriptor.toJavaArray(ArrayDescriptor.java:963)
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     at com.telstra.plo.data.NetworkDAO.findCablesInBuffer(NetworkDAO.java:730)
     at com.telstra.plo.data.NetworkDAOTest.testFindCablesInBuffer(NetworkDAOTest.java:45)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
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     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
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     at junit.framework.TestCase.runTest(TestCase.java:154)
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